Firms of all sizes increasingly face the need to participate in global innovation cooperation. Yet, the global dimension adds another layer of complexity to open innovation processes. Juliane Hartig develops a framework for different forms of distance and discusses their impact and partial...

Possible Positive and Negative Impacts of Business Networking on Innovation and Excellence -- Sustainable Altruism for Business Networking -- Ecology of Innovation in Organizational Settings.- Dimensions of Business Network Effectiveness and Motivations for Business Networking.

Demonstrates that the processes of innovation and technological change are spatially differentiated, both regionally within countries and internationally between countries. This book also aims to broaden our understanding of the innovation process and the process of network formation

This volume explores the ways in which knowledge and innovation impact business and economic sustainability, offering a wide-ranging and richly illustrated study of knowledge, innovation and sustainability of organizations from a dynamic capabilities perspective. In organizational theory,...

Introduction -- Network organizations: theoretical assumptions of functioning and management of inter-firm cooperation -- Management of alliance network at the formation stage -- Management of alliance network at the functionality stage -- Management of alliance network at the post-operational...